More under ‘Vidyasri’ ambit

To help bring more students from the poorer sections under the GVMC’s education-support scheme ‘Vidyasri’, the corporation will now give admission to those with 7.5 grading in the SSC.

The decision was taken at the executive body meeting of the Sweekaram Education Society on Tuesday, with Municipal Commissioner M.V. Satyanarayana presiding.

Until now, the GVMC is extending assistance to students who obtain a grade of 9 in the SSC for Intermediate admission in corporate colleges.

However, the qualifying grade has been lowered to 7.5 to help more poor students gain admission. This is expected to bring another 200 students under the ‘Vidyasri’ assistance.

The meeting decided that students between 7.5 and 8 grades would be helped to continue Intermediate and polytechnic courses and those above 8 grade would be put in corporate colleges.

Even those who get less than 7.5 grade will be helped to get admission in government junior colleges. The scheme will now be extended to high schools at Anakapalle and Bheemunipatnam.

Sweekaram

For implementation of ‘Sweekaram, under which schools are adopted for provision of infrastructure and amenities, it has been decided to raise contributions up to Rs. 1 crore.

Requirement

In all, 4,000 dual desks are required and their making will be given to the Jails Department and other State government organisations.

Special classes

Mr. Satyanarayana asked the education wing officials to conduct special classes to students coming to SSC this academic year to improve the result. Teachers and education volunteers should be identified for whom special remuneration will be given.

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A group of visually-challenged students wrote the Secondary School Certificate examination 2015 (for Class X) at Bhashyam School in Visakhapatnam. They were guided to their exam hall and seat by teacher and students of class IX wrote on paper for them sitting next to the examinees. Photos: K.R. Deepak